TIMOTHY BROWN IS FIRST MAN TO BE CURED OF AIDS; AIDS IS NO MORE INCURABLE

Timothy Brown also known as the “Berlin Patient”(because he once lived there) is the first man to be cured of AIDS. The 46 years old became the first person in history to be cured of HIV after receiving a blood stem cell transplant from a person resistant to the virus. In 1995 he was  first tested positive for HIV but a medical breakthrough in 2007 made possible by a surgery saw made him the first man cured of HIV. He was earlier diagnosed with leukemia and in the course of treatment he was cured of HIV. The blood stem cells he received came from a donor with a special genetic mutation that made him resistant to HIV. The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races. Before Brown got his transplant in 2007, doctors tested nearly 70 donors for this genetic mutation before they found one who was a match. Brown had his transplant in February 2007 and now his body shows no signs of the HIV virus.

Timothy Brown told ABC News "I feel good…I haven't had any major illnesses, just occasional colds like normal people."
Will this be the medical breakthrough 34 million people living with HIV have been praying for? It’s a matter of time said Dr. Lawrence Petz, medical director of StemCyte, an umbilical cord blood bank